Exposing Predators
Reportage
Description
Across the world, journalists have used undercover techniques to expose individual predators and as well as major sex crime rings.
Reporters
Media History
The reporting was intended for these media types: Magazine, Newspaper, Television
Articles, Books, Video/Film
I-To Catch a Predator: Dangers children face online" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Dateline hidden camera investigation turns spotlight on Internet predators
November 11, 2004
The first story done by Dateline NBC in the "To Catch A Predator" model. Dateline NBC collaborated with an activist ...II-"To Catch a Predator: Catching potential Internet sex predators" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | A long line of visitors expected to find a young teen they'd been chatting with online, home alone. Instead, they found Dateline cameras
November 10, 2005
The second hidden camera story in the "To Catch A Predator" model.III-"To Catch a Predator" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Dateline's ongoing hidden camera investigation into computer sex predators--grown men, trolling the Web for sex with minors. This time, police are making arrests
February 3, 2006
The third "To Catch A Predator" style investigation. This is the first instance of police involvementV-"To Catch a Predator: Admitted child abuser caught in sting" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Meet more of the men from our Ohio investigation
May 3, 2006
Part two of the Greenville, OH "To Catch A Predator" series.VII-"To Catch a Predator: A Cyber Twilight Zone in Ft. Myers, Fla." - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | The men we met during the latest 'To Catch a Predator' investigation
May 31, 2006
Chris Hansen and the "To Catch A Predator" crew are invited to Florida by law enforcement for a hidden camera sting.VI-"To Catch a Predator: Caught on camera, but not surprised" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Despite awareness of recent stings, some potential predators still take a chance and make a date online with an underaged teen
May 17, 2006
Dateline goes to Fort Meyers Fla, to continue their popular To Catch A Predator hidden camera series.VIII-"To Catch a Predator: They're still showing up" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Despite awareness of previous Dateline investigations, some potential predators show up anyway
September 13, 2006
Part one of a Dateline "To Catch A Predator" hidden camera sting in GeorgiaIX-"To Catch a Predator: Going the Distance" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Some potential predators drive hours to a rural area in Fortson, Ga. One even arrives by big rig
September 22, 2006
Part two of the Dateline hidden camera sting in GeorgiaX-"To Catch a Predator: Potential Predators in Petaluma" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | A new investigation, a new set-up (in the backyard), and more men caught on camera in a town already home to two high-profile predator cases
September 29, 2006
Part one of a Dateline "Predator" hidden camera show in California.XI-"To Catch a Predator: Prominent Men Caught in Petaluma Sting" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | The latest 'Predator' investigation uncovers some prominent men caught in what police say are criminal acts. These men risk losing their jobs... and in some cases, perhaps even their freedom
October 6, 2006
Part two of the California Dateline "predator" hidden camera series.XII-"To Catch a Predator: Scary Chats and a Repeat 'Predator'" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Two firsts in the Long Beach, Calif. investigation: A man from a previous sting shows up again; while our presence in town is leaked online
January 30, 2007
Part one of a two part Dateline "Predator" series in Long Beach, CA.XIII-"To Catch a Predator: Potential Predators Adapt to Recent Stings" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Part 2 of the Long Beach, Calif. investigation: Presumably to avoid a sting, one potential predator suggests meeting at a park in broad daylight
February 6, 2007
Part two of the Long Beach, CA Dateline "predator" series.XIV- "To Catch A Predator: Murphy, Texas" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline
February 13, 2007
This episode of To Catch A Predator includes the controversial attempt to arrest D.A. Louis Conradt, who committed ...XV-"To Catch a Predator: Flagler Investigation: Online and on the beach" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Part 1 of the Flagler Beach, Fla. investigation: Where families crowd beaches and theme parks, and potential predators crowd the Internet
February 27, 2007
Part one of a "Predator" hidden camera series in FloridaXVI-"To Catch a Predator: The scariest potential predator" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Part 2 of the Flagler Beach, Fla. investigation: A police officer from another town arrives with a gun in his pocket and an arsenal in his car
March 6, 2007
Part two of the Florida hidden camera seriesXVIII-"To Catch a Predator: No day at the beach" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Despite knowing NBC's 'To Catch a Predator,' men still showed up to meet teens at the undercover house on the New Jersey shore. 'When do I get to see myself on TV?' asked one
July 18, 2007
Part one of two of a To Catch A Predator episode in Ocean County, NJ.XVII-"To Catch a Predator: Expensive home rich with potential predators" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | When 'To Catch a Predator' rented a multi-million dollar home on the Jersey shore, 28 men showed up -- sometimes two at a time.
May 25, 2007
Part two of the Ocean County, NJ To Catch a Predator episode.XIX-"To Catch a Predator: Potential predators go south in Kentucky" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline | Things went south for the parade of men who showed up at the undercover 'Predator' house thinking they would meet a young girl home alone
December 28, 2007
The last episode of To Catch A PredatorIV-"To Catch A Predator: Greenville, Ohio, Part I" - Chris Hansen - NBC Dateline
March 31, 2006
Part One of the Greenville, Ohio, investigation which attracted criticism for being too closely involved with police.I-"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" - W. T. Stead - Pall Mall Gazette | "The Report of our Secret Commission"
July 6, 1885
Part one of Stead's expose on child prostitution.II-"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" - W. T. Stead - Pall Mall Gazette | "The Report of our Secret Commission"
July 7, 1885
The second part of W.T. Stead's series on child prostitutionIII-"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" - W. T. Stead - Pall Mall Gazette | "The Report of our Secret Commission"
July 8, 1885
The third part of W.T. Stead's report on child prostitution.IV-"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" - W.T. Stead - Pall Mall Gazette | "the Report of our Secret Commission"
July 10, 1885
The final part of W.T. Stead's article on child prostitution ."Very Young Girls" - David Schisgall, Nina Alvarez and Priya Swaminathan - Showtime Independent Films
September 12, 2007
From WorldCat: "Very young girls is an expose of human trafficking that follows thirteen and fourteen year old ..."Rescued From Sex Slavery" - Rebecca Leung - CBS 48 Hours | "48 Hours Goes Undercover Into the International Sex Slave Trade"
February 23, 2005
From CBS 48 Hours site: ". . . Posing as traffickers from America, 48 Hours crews went undercover, hoping to rescue ..."Girls for Sale" - Cynthia McFadden, Diane Sawyer - ABC News 20/20
March 18, 1998
ABC News, helped by Global Survival Network, investigated sex trafficking in Israel, produing undercover videos that ..."Sex Slaves" - Ester Bienstock - PBS Frontline
February 7, 2006
This is the most dramatic of the relatively recent investigations of this type. Director Bienstock and a documentary ..."The Sport of Sheikhs" - Bernard Goldberg - HBO Sports with Bryan Gumbel
October 19, 2004
Undercover reporting figured in this first sports program ever to win a DuPont-Columbia award (and also an sports ..."What Becomes of Babies?" - Nellie Bly - New York World | Hundreds and Hundreds of Little Ones Given Away Yearly; Met the Petted Darlings of the Rich, But the Infants Born to Shame; These Are the Ones That Are Given to Alien Hand; Regular Traffic in New-Born Babes; A Money-Making Trade in Humanity 'th
November 6, 1887
Bly poses as a woman in pursuit of a baby to buy in an exposé of the baby-buying trade."Stalking the Stalkers" - Lisa Fletcher - Transcript
May 5, 2002
ABC 15 Arizona went undercover to catch an internet child predator."Selling Innocence" - Dave Savini - IRE Journal | Collaborative Efforts Nabs Promoters of Child Porn
July 1, 2002
WTVJ-Miami and WMAQ-Chicago joined forces to go undercover and expose child predators."Alleged Prositution in Philippines" - Nightline - ABC News
February 25, 2013
ABC News goes undercover to investigate Americans who are accountable for selling young women for sex in the ..."The brothel worker: 'I regret not working in the sex trade as soon as I got here'" - Hsiao-Hung Pai - The Guardian | Posing as a maid, Hsiao-Hung Pai infiltrated the murky world of the UK sex trade and spoke to some of the migrant mothers desperately working to send money home to their families
April 14, 2013
Journalist, Hsiao-Hung Pai began working at a brothel in London as a maid and reported her experiences there."Inside Cambodia's Hidden Child Brothels" - CNN - Mira Sorvino
December 11, 2013
"Mira Sorvino takesa a behind the scenes look at Cambodia's child sex trade: Karoke bars are often fronts for ..."INVESTIGATION: Inside Nigeria's Ruthless Human Trafficking Mafia" - Tobore Ovuorie - Premium Times (Nigeria)
January 24, 2014
The Precede: "The Six out of 10 people who are trafficked to the West are Nigerians. Premium Times investigative ..."Ghana's Sex Mafia" - Anas Aremeyaw Anas
May 18, 2012"Photos & Text! Anas Aremeyaw Anas' Latest 'Trafficked and Abused'"
March 12, 2014
Anas goes undercover into the world of Vietnamese women between the ages of 29 and 38 who agreed to leave their ...